Woman reunited with ring 25 years after it was stolen

Social media reunited a Missouri woman with her 1959 high school graduation ring 25 years after it was stolen.

Alisa Waltland and her family were admiring her great nephew's senior class ring when out of the blue her nephew said that he found a class ring in a park a few years ago.

Alisa's nephew was using a metal detector at Richter Park and dug up the ring years ago, but there was no way to find out who it belonged to. Once Alisa took a closer look at it and was able to discern the school name and date, she posted a picture of the find on Facebook.

Alisa took a picture of it and posted it, "If you grew up in De Soto's" Facebook page and people started to respond, which is how they were able to connect it back with its owner, Margie Elders, known as Margie Isgrig in 1959, who worked in the cafeteria to buy her own graduation ring.

To many of this age range, high school was not always obtainable, much like college today. And it was a proud acheivement. At a month shy of 65 now, unfortunately, my family was so poor I couldn't pay for the rest due on mine after putting down a $5 deposit, so, I never got a ring. So this is great news for this lady! I like to see good things happen for good people.

Wow, I can't believe there are no comments save one here. You got good news for a citizen, a happy ending, but no comments. This is one for the metal detecting hobby community. If more parks would change their regulations to allowing detectorists, provided they adhere to the groundskeeping part of it like refilling your nicely cut and dug hole, manicuring the sod there in a non draught scenario, then there would be more joyous ring owners like this lovely lady, more evidence in crime cases recovered to further investigations, and more intrinsic items returned to the world of museums and history for all of us, not to mention coins out of circulation coming back into the economy which actually saves the taxpayers as they do not have to fund the minting of more. All hobbies have their bad guys, so continue to watch out for the very few bad metal detectorists, but the benefits of parks around the country allowing this hobby far far out weigh the cons of the topic or issue. Cudos!

Beautiful lady. :) Wow. She did what Sauron couldn't do. lol. I have an heirloom ring from my mom. I would hope that's how I would feel after losing it and having it returned to me after 25 years. What a Sweetie. :)